I've been procrastinating responding to your procrastinated response! Mostly because I wanted the time to sit down and actually read and consider what you've said.
Yes, I know the article was crap, but when I'm uncomfortable with my levels of pessimism, negativity and self-criticism, articles spouting 'advice' like that bother me. I did realize later, upon ranting about the article to a friend, that the article does more or less describe my little sister. Since her life is way more messed up than mine right now, I took some solace from that - though I do have tremendous respect for her and wish I could go through my life as blase as she does.
I've been finding lately that I don't endlessly worry about improving and being efficient and perfectionist. Or, more accurately, I do worry but not enough to actually go about being more efficient and accurate. I think this is probably because I'm not invested in my job at all. I'm talking to a career councilor (pro-bono for now) about how to go about figuring out who I want to be in my life to help find a situation that will be fulfilling. We'll see how it goes ... I'm dubious.
Yes, I know the article was crap, but when I'm uncomfortable with my levels of pessimism, negativity and self-criticism, articles spouting 'advice' like that bother me. I did realize later, upon ranting about the article to a friend, that the article does more or less describe my little sister. Since her life is way more messed up than mine right now, I took some solace from that - though I do have tremendous respect for her and wish I could go through my life as blase as she does.
I've been finding lately that I don't endlessly worry about improving and being efficient and perfectionist. Or, more accurately, I do worry but not enough to actually go about being more efficient and accurate. I think this is probably because I'm not invested in my job at all. I'm talking to a career councilor (pro-bono for now) about how to go about figuring out who I want to be in my life to help find a situation that will be fulfilling. We'll see how it goes ... I'm dubious.
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